Apparel-corset.



PATENTED FEB. 27, 1906.

D. KOPS.

APPAREL coassr. AIPLIULTIOH FILED OUT. 30,1905.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

DANIEL KOPS, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

APPAREL-CORSET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27. 1906.

Application filed October 38, 1905. Serial No. 286.312.

To LL56 whom zit may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful 1mrovement in Apparel-Corsets, of which the ollowing is a specification.

In the art of apparel-corsets it has heretofore been usual to provide breast covers or pads or so porters, both for the purpose of creating a orm and of sustaining a natural form; and the ob'ect of my invention is to rovide an apparel-corset with a light-weight exible shaping-su port secured by sewing to the upper edge oi the corset and which is adapted to extend across the bust and to have its free ends connected together for ten sion and support. In the device of my invention the lightweight flexible shaping-support employed by me is composed in each part of several pieces of fabric at one end secured to the upper edge of a corset, beginning a short distance from the front and extending around toward the sides, the free ends of which pieces converge and are connected.

In use the respective ends of the parts at tached to the halves of the corset are arranged to be manually connected in any desired and adjustable relation. The several pieces of each part may be separate or of shaped parts sewed together, and which flexible fabric-support is of such form that when not desired for use it may be turned downward against the outer surface of the corset out of the way.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the upper portion of a corset of ordinary construction, illustrating the parts constituting my invention as connected in position for use. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the structure shown in Fig. 1. Fi n 3 is a front elevation of the upper portion 0? a corset with the devices of my invention turned down out of the way when not in use. Fig. 4 is a side elevation showing the shaping-support of my invention formed of several pieces sewed to gether and at the broad end sewed to the upper end of a corset, the free end of said arts converging. Fig. 5 is an elevation oi the parts 0 m 1m roved shapingsupport,show ing a mo iiie form of connecting together the free ends and Fig. 6 shows a detail.

a and I) represent the upper portions of halves of a corset of ordinary construction, and c the fastening device of the steels at the front for connecting said parts together.

The light-weight flexible shaping-support which forms an essential feature of my invention is shown in Figs. 1 and 2 as formed of a number of pieces of tape 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, and as each number is alike the description of one will sufiice.

The separate pieces 2 to 7, inclusive, are secured to the upper edge of the corset by sewing shown by dotted lines, the piece 2 being located a short distance from the front steel and the respective parts being slightly overlapped and extending around toward the sides and toward the under-arm portion of the corset and the free ends of these pieces 2 to 7, inclusive, converge and increase in their overlapping as they converge and they are connected together at their free ends by an overlying strap d, sewed to all of the free ends, and from which strap (1 extends a tape 6.

The respective pieces 2 to 7, inclusive, are positioned over a form so that in use they will conform to the natural form of the wearer in the supportin function for which they are made. This will be more or less apparent by a view of Figs. 1 and 2, respectively, front and side elevations, ant in which the dotted lines indicate the bust outline, the object of said flexible support being of confining the natural figure of the wearer within the boundary limits of the corset, and thus assist in the fitting of a waist and in the general appearance of the figure.

Fig. 1 shows the tapes c oi the two parts of the shaping-support tied together, so as to draw the shaping-support and apply the desired tension over the figure.

I do not limit myself to tying-tapes or even to the snap-fasteners shown in Fig. 5 for the same purpose, as any desired or convenient device or means may be employed for holding together or connecting the free ends of the shaping-so port.

In Fig. 4 I have shown the shaping-sup port as made of three pieces of fabric ff j cut to the desired form and sewed to ether, and also as with the pieces 2 to 7 inc usive, sewed to the upper edge of the corset.

l Vith the pieces shown in Fig. 4 it is prcterable to so shape them as to im art to the flexible sha )lI1 fSUp})OI'b forinc thereby a concave or liol ow configuration, so as more nearly to conform to the figure of the wearer.

It is a fact and from the drawings it will be apparent that the shaping-so port of my invention is not only to be sewer to the up per edge of a corset of ordinary construction,

but is preferably sewed to the upper edge af ter the usual binding has been applied to the corset. 'lherefore should. the purchaser of a corset of this form desire for any reason whatsoever to IGIIIOVB the shaping-support it can be done by cutting the sewing and removing the threads without injuring the corset proper in its continuity.

At the left side of Fig. 1 I have shown the multiplicity of pieces 2 to 7, inclusive, as disconnected between their connected converging ends and places of attaclnnent to the upper edge of the corset, while at the right-hand side of Fig. 1 I have shown an overlying tape 8, occupying an intermediate position be tween the place of attachment to the corset and. the connected converging ends and which tape is sewed down to place, so as to intermediately connect all the separate pieces 2 to 7 together; but I do not limit myself to the em. )loyment of such pieces, as it is only a form the invention.

In Fig. 6, illustrating a detail, I have shown a binding-strip 9 for joining together by sewing the adjacent ends of the parts forming my improved shaping-support, so that each shaping-support is made complete and is adapted to be connected by a line of sewing at its bound edge to the binding at the u per edge of the corset, this construction being ully shown in Fig. 6, which is a cross-section and partial perspective.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination with the halves of an apparel-corset of ordinary construction, of shapingsupports of flexible material, each formed of a multiplicity of pieces, at one end connected by sewing to the up )er edge of the corset from a short distance l rom the front steels, and extending around toward the under-arm sides and with their free ends overlapped and converging, and connected together, and means for connecting their free ends in an adjustable relation.

2. The combination with the halves of an aaparel-corset of" ordinary construction, of sl iapingsnpports of flexible material, each formed. of a multiplicity of pieces, at one end connected by sewing to the up er ed e of the corset from a short distance rom t e front steels, and extending around toward the underarm sides and with their free ends overlapped and converging, and connected together, and tying-tapes formed as prolongations of the free converging ends of the shaping-supports, and by which the shaping-supports are tied together for use in an adjustable relation.

3. The combination with the halves of an. apparel-corset of ordinary construction, of shaping-supports of flexible material, each formed of a multi )licity of pieces, at one end connected by sewing to the up er edge of the corset from a short distance rom the front steels, and extending around toward the under-arm sides and with their free ends converging, and connected together, and means for connecting their free ends in an adjust able relation.

i. The combination with the halves of an apparel-corset of ordinary construction, having a binding along its upper edge of shapingsupports of flexible material, each formed of a multiplicity of pieces, at one end connected together by a binding and sewed thereto, and connected by sewing to the bound u per edge of the corset from a short distance rom the front steels, and extending around toward the under-arm sides, and with their free ends converging and connected together, and means for connecting together the free ends of said sha ing-supports as extending toward one another over the bust and in an adjustable relation.

Signed by me this 27th day of October,

DANIEL KOPS. \Vitnesses:

GEO. T. PINGKNEY, E. ZACHARIASEN. 

